pupil in the 1980s. For reasons I could not fathom, my usually protective father, who had previously resisted my bid to travel to neighbouring Kabba town for an interview that would earn me admission into secondary school, strangely decided to yield to my Ilorin-based elder sister’s request that I should spend my holiday with her.
In Iloring, it was a different ball game. My excited sister felt an obligation to pamper me with all manner of victuals and even take me to the state government owned park and garden located at the intersection between Ibrahim Taiwo and Unity roads, among other fun spots. So pleasant was my stay that I felt reluctant to return to the village at the expiration of the holiday.
From the foregoing, you can imagine my shock and pain at the news that a piece of head covering calledis threatening the foundation of the peace and spirit of camaraderie that has governed Ilorin for ages. The Christian and Muslim population in the city who had lived at peace with one another for centuries are now at daggers drawn over whether theTrouble was said to have begun on a fateful morning an rider took a Muslim student with the head covering to one of the missionary schools in the city.
Religion is a private affair; a personal relationship between an individual and God. Granting aides to the mission schools in the state does not necessarily transfer their ownership to the government. Schools everywhere in the world have codes of conduct, among which is the mode of dressing, which must be respected by anyone who desires to pass through them.
I am not a Muslim, but I have many Muslim friends, neighbours and relations whose wives and daughters do not wear the. It takes nothing away from their identities as Muslims or their belief in the oneness and supremacy of Allah. If for many months during the recent COVID-19 lockdown the mosques had to be shut just like the churches and the heavens did not fall, the few hours a female student would spend in school without the.
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I really do not know in what book it is where hijab must be allowed to be worn by students or pupils to school.I really don't know who would come out with that enslaving idea.There is no way you should it compulsory,when it just a dressing or cloth that one should wear by chioce.
This headline doesn’t make sense!